Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Putyvl He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Putyvl
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Putyvl A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost What's new? Most of my wife. Putyvl
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Putyvl Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Putyvl
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Putyvl You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Putyvl
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Putyvl When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Putyvl
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Putyvl Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Putyvl
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Putyvl Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Putyvl
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Putyvl Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Putyvl
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Putyvl True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Putyvl
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Putyvl "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Putyvl
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Putyvl In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Putyvl
